Subject:Cassingles

Written By:whistledogon09/11/05 at 8:30 pm

Remember when Cassingles (aka Cassette Singles) were popular in the late 80's and early 90's? They came in cardboard sleeves, but the ones in the early-mid 80's came with actual sleeves and plastic cases

The first cassette single I can recall owning was 'Two Tribes' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and as for the cardboard ones.. 'Every Little Tear' by Paul Janz

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Written By:jackason09/11/05 at 8:44 pm

I only owned one, but I can't remember what the song was......hhmmmmmm. Oh....(Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams

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Written By:whistledogon09/11/05 at 8:45 pm

I only owned one, but I can't remember what the song was......hhmmmmmm.Ã‚Â Oh....(Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams

I had that one too. I remember copies of it pretty much flew off the shelves in rapid numbers when it was releasesd :)

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Written By:FaultyDogon09/12/05 at 12:13 am

I did own one once....A Question Of Lust by Depeche Mode (Limited edition).

But the tape was of poor quality and squeakish. And it's long gone...

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Written By:Ashley Tisdale's A Cutieon09/12/05 at 3:14 am

9 "Debbie Gibson" cassingles :D

Out Of The Blue Electric YouthNo More RhymeWe Could Be TogetherAnything Is Possible (3 copies!)Losin' Myself

More towards the mid 90's, I bought alot of them myself, since I tended to like more individual songs, as opposed to everything, like I did/do from the 80's. Most of them I've now gotten rid of, but I think this was some of them:

Baby I Love Your Way - Big MountainEveryday - Phil CollinsThe Sign - Ace of BaseLove is All Around - Wet Wet WetWild Night - John MellencampCome to My Window - Melissa EtheridgeRoll to Me - Del AmitriYou Are Not Alone - Michael JacksonGet Over it - EaglesMiles Away - WingerI'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me - Expose

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Written By:quirky_cat_girlon09/12/05 at 7:22 am

I still have a bunch of my old ones from the late 80's/early 90's.

Erin :)

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Written By:FaultyDogon09/12/05 at 3:47 pm

I did own one once....A Question Of Lust by Depeche Mode (Limited edition).

But the tape was of poor quality and squeakish. And it's long gone...

I have to add that cassette singles never made it over here. I don't know why, but I think it's because they were around about the same time the first CD singles were released (which were of far better quality).

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Written By:Crizon09/14/05 at 7:59 am

I have a whole bunch of them. I think the first ones I bought were by the Spice Girls and Boyzone!! 1996 that was.

I think the last one I bought was in 1999 or even 2000! But that was also the last single I ever bought. I just buy albums now, as the singles charts are generally awful nowadays. Full of music that I either cannot stand - the only good stuff that gets released never usually even hits the top 10.

I do fee that buying singles is pointless. I mean, even ring tones are outselling singles - and that says A LOT. I wish that bloody Crazy frog would stay away from both the singles charts and ringtones - he should be banned!

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Written By:whistledogon10/15/06 at 10:38 pm

I just went through boxes of my cassette tapes, and found a few of my cassingles (i know i have more, but i am too lazy to look for them lol) ...

Love and Rockets - So AliveDon Henley - The Heart of the MatterDebbie Gibson - No More RhymeVanessa Williams - Save the Best For LastRoxette - Dressed For SuccessBryan Adams - Please Forgive MeCher - If I Could Turn Back TimeFirehouse - Love of A LifetimeJanet Jackson - Come Back to MeSheree - Woman's WorkWest End Girls - I Want You BackAce of Base - All That She WantsAce of Base - Don't Turn AroundWorld on Edge - Wash the RainClarence Carter - Strokin' <Extended Version>Paula Abdul - The Promise of A New DayPaula Abdul - Blowing Kisses in the WindAlanis - Too HotUB40 - Can't Help Falling in LoveCrowded House - It's Only NaturalSamantha Fox - I Only Wanna Be With YouChesney Hawkes - The One and OnlyRoxette - Fading Like A FlowerMadonna - This Used to Be My PlaygroundRick Astley - Giving Up on LoveTexas - Rick's Road SamplerColor Me Badd - All 4 LoveBelinda Carlisle - Summer RainTaylor Dayne - With Every Beat of My HeartGo West - King of Wishful ThinkingDavid A. Stewart introducing Candy Dulfer - Lily Was HereWhitney Houston - Run to YouSusanna Hoffs - My Side of the BedGenesis - I Can't Dance

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Written By:Sister Morphineon10/15/06 at 10:43 pm

I have 4 Mariah Carey cassingles....Fantasy, Honey, Always Be My Baby and One Sweet Day. I have quite a few others, but the names escape me at the moment.

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Written By:Roadgeekon10/15/06 at 10:44 pm

The only thing I've ever owned that's anything close to a cassingle would be Elton John's Candle in the Wind '97.

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Written By:mach!ne_he@don10/16/06 at 12:40 am

The only thing I've ever owned that's anything close to a cassingle would be Elton John's Candle in the Wind '97.

Yeah, I don't think I own any cassingle's either, even though I defidently remember seeing them in the early/mid-'90s.

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Written By:woopson10/24/06 at 2:50 pm

I currently have a box full of them :D

The most, Deborah Gibson with 6, 8 including dupilcates

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Written By:ultraviolet52on04/30/08 at 12:56 am

I owned several. I thought they were just normal since singles were pretty much the quickest way to get your favorite new song at the time. I don't know if kids today will ever understand that anticipation of waiting for a single to come out or a new album, for that matter.

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The only thing I've ever owned that's anything close to a cassingle would be Elton John's Candle in the Wind '97.

Ohh, yes, we had this one and still have it lying around somewhere!

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Written By:Marty McFlyon04/30/08 at 1:03 am

I owned several. I thought they were just normal since singles were pretty much the quickest way to get your favorite new song at the time. I don't know if kids today will ever understand that anticipation of waiting for a single to come out or a new album, for that matter.

OMG, I had "Baby I Love Your Way" too and I loved that song then, still do. :) 8)

Yeah I bought lots of tape singles in the early-mid '90s, because there were alot of singles that I liked but not necesarilly a fan of the artists in general. Whenever I got full albums it was usually '80s stuff, or artists that I liked in general like Weird Al. It was good for us 'cause we didn't necesarilly have much money at the time, being like around late Elementary or early Middle school, lol. Even if my mom and I liked alot of the same music (so I got alot of what I liked kinda easier anyway), it was still nice to spend two bucks instead of ten. ;)

It seems like 1989-1997 was the cassingle's time.

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Written By:Davesteron04/30/08 at 1:06 am

Cassingles were cool. Had a box of 'em. And I remember throwing ALL of them away, at once, in 1995. The kid next door snagged them out of our garbage...

Bought my very first cassingle in 1987 in New Orleans while I was visiting my brother, and I think it was Give To Live by Sammy Hagar...

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Written By:ultraviolet52on04/30/08 at 1:12 am

OMG, I had "Baby I Love Your Way" too and I loved that song then, still do. :) 8)

Yeah I bought lots of tape singles in the early-mid '90s, because there were alot of singles that I liked but not necesarilly a fan of the artists in general. Whenever I got full albums it was usually '80s stuff, or artists that I liked in general like Weird Al. It was good for us 'cause we didn't necesarilly have much money at the time, being like around late Elementary or early Middle school, lol. Even if my mom and I liked alot of the same music (so I got alot of what I liked kinda easier anyway), it was still nice to spend two bucks instead of ten. ;)

It seems like 1989-1997 was the cassingle's time.

haha, that's so strange! I swear I thought I was the only person in the world that bought that single of Big Mountain's! I always liked that version and still do. I remember it was from a movie, too. I can't remember, but it was one of those Gen X movies, maybe "Singles" or something like that.

Yes, that's what I liked about them then - buying a song that you liked from an artist you didn't feel quite sure about. Buying an album was always a big decision to me, even as a kid. I seemed to make my choices wisely, as I didn't want to waste my money nor my parents. Although, there were a few I think I still regret buying! lol.

I think you've got the years right on the cassingles popularity.

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Written By:midniteon04/30/08 at 6:32 pm

Usually cassette singles had one good song (which is why you bought it) and one bad b-side. However, some cassette singles actually had @ good songs!!

Here are a couple I remember

Wu-Tang Clan - I believe it had Protect Ya Neck on one side and M.E.T.H.O.D. Man on the other side. A double Whammy!

Sade - No Ordinary Love / Paradise

Can you name some of these singles with two good songs?

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Written By:gumbypizon04/30/08 at 11:34 pm

I remember Cassingles and HATED >:( them with a passion.

Working at a music store during the late 80's and early 90's when cassingles were in their heyday...

The most annoying part of the music store was the cassingles, unlike the rest of the full album cassettes these were open to the public to browse through and steal, and thereby keep in a constant state of disarray.

Mostly kids bought them at .99 to 2.99 (depending on the songs/single/extended mix).

I would hate being assigned to the cassette wall only to have to babysit teenagers and *shoplifters too* asking for the latest Vanilla Ice single and repeatedly answer yes we have "whatever lame pop song that is being played ad infinitum" and its price, hand or point out its location to them, have them squeal with delight, look and hold it like they found the holy grail, and then not buy it.

It made no sense to me as to why people bought them, the quality of the songs (already poor considering the artists that mainly used cassingles for distribution) the actual quality of manufacture of the cassingle tapes themselves was terrible and they usually broke from repeated playings very quickly. Most stores and local distributors found it very hard make money on them and were a pain to keep in stock if a track was hot, or return if the popular song died quickly.

Also thought it was bizarre that kids would buy three or more singles from the same artist for 1.99 to 2.99 but not buy the whole tape/album at $7.99, claiming "Well I don't know if I'll like the whole album" even though they've already spent more than the cost of the album on cassingles separately already... ::) :P

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Written By:coqueta83on04/30/08 at 11:46 pm

I still have quite a few cassette singles left, even though many more of them got lost over the years. I believe the first cassette single I ever bought was "The Right Stuff" by NKOTB. I think I also have some 45 RPM singles left somewhere in storage.

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Written By:Tanya1976on05/01/08 at 1:44 am

I had a gang of them.

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Written By:midniteon05/01/08 at 6:14 pm

I remember Cassingles and HATED >:( them with a passion.

Working at a music store during the late 80's and early 90's when cassingles were in their heyday...

The most annoying part of the music store was the cassingles, unlike the rest of the full album cassettes these were open to the public to browse through and steal, and thereby keep in a constant state of disarray.

Mostly kids bought them at .99 to 2.99 (depending on the songs/single/extended mix).

I would hate being assigned to the cassette wall only to have to babysit teenagers and *shoplifters too* asking for the latest Vanilla Ice single and repeatedly answer yes we have "whatever lame pop song that is being played ad infinitum" and its price, hand or point out its location to them, have them squeal with delight, look and hold it like they found the holy grail, and then not buy it.

It made no sense to me as to why people bought them, the quality of the songs (already poor considering the artists that mainly used cassingles for distribution) the actual quality of manufacture of the cassingle tapes themselves was terrible and they usually broke from repeated playings very quickly. Most stores and local distributors found it very hard make money on them and were a pain to keep in stock if a track was hot, or return if the popular song died quickly.

Also thought it was bizarre that kids would buy three or more singles from the same artist for 1.99 to 2.99 but not buy the whole tape/album at $7.99, claiming "Well I don't know if I'll like the whole album" even though they've already spent more than the cost of the album on cassingles separately already... ::) :P

Someone is a wee bit disgruntled. LOL. I used to love cassingles because you didn't have to buy the whole CD. Especially some of those trendy raps songs that you just knew the CD would be really bad. For example, Snap - The Power (I also owned the cassette)Technotronic - Pump Up The JamWrecks N Effect - RumpshakerMC Hammer - Can't Touch ThisTag Team - Whoomp There It IsDuice - Dazzy Duks